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Doomer
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a pessimistic or depressive person who expects the worst in life
Slang
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Human
Composition
Compound
Countable
Plural form
doomers
What does "doomer" mean in internet slang?
The term "doomer" describes a person with a strongly pessimistic outlook who believes negative outcomes in life or society are inevitable. The structure comes from "doom," referring to catastrophe or failure, with the suffix "-er" forming a label for someone embodying that mindset. It is informal internet slang often used in meme culture and online communities to characterize chronic pessimism, nihilism, or defeatist attitudes about the future.
Examples
Of course the doomer says we're all doomed.
Lexical Tree
doomer
doom
